US women’s beach volleyball team wins gold, thanks Bush??

I haveÂ read in aÂ couple ofÂ different places this morning, like at Lucianne.com, that Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor – the US women’s beach volleyball team – actually thanked the President yesterday after defeatingÂ the Chinese team toÂ win the gold medal.Â This has to be seen to be believed!

I have searched for video or links to the actual quote(s), but with no luck.Â Anyone out there who finds the vid, please post the link – or a link to the transcript or quotes – in the comments.

Congrats, ladies!Â Hope you don’t lose any endorsement deals because of this

Caption: Misty May-Treanor (right) and her teammate Kerri Walsh of the US kiss their gold medals on the podium during the awards ceremony following their victory over China’s Tian Jia and Wang Jie in their women’s final beach volleyball match at Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground, on August 21, during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The US team won 2-0. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

But after the match was over – after the celebration, and after Misty May sprinkled her mom’s ashes on the ground again, NBC interviewed the two women and asked them about their feelings about the match, and winning the gold for the second straight Olympics.

That’s when Walsh said it.Â The statement that will likely drive those who can not tolerate anyone in the universe not being full of hate toward the President of the United States:

I just want to say this.Â Thank you Mr. President – for your inspiration!Â We love you, RAAAAAAHHH!!!”

I’m paraphrasing of course – I can’t find the comment on youtube, and nobody else has written on this yet that I can see, but the point remains.

C’mon – someone’s got to have a vid of this somewhere!

Update 3 – 10:10 AM: Ask and ye shall receive.Â Here’s a link to video of what was said.Â Thanks to ActPatriot in the comments! TheÂ .wmvÂ link within the main linkÂ is slow loading, so have patience.Â

I love it. They weren’t asked about the President – they volunteered the remarks.Â Good for them!

Update 4 – 7:17 PM: If the vid at Ms. Underestimated is slow-loading, here’s a shorter version of the vid that skips right to the quote from Walsh:

i saw it and heard it and loved it.
it was my favorite moment of the olympics.
kerri also said “for all you do” and misty added
“we love you and we did this for you”
the match was great and those girls are the greatest.
IT WAS REAL AND HEARTFELT. USA USA USA!

Blessings, beloveds,
I haven’t viewed ANY of the Olympics so I get my updates online. I think it’s wonderful these women chose to thank Bush. I’m sure he was just as surprised to hear the words as everyone else.

One can only admire and respect their decision to honor a man who’s so often vilified.

TBILISI, Georgia — The road to the airport is named George W. Bush Street.

Across from historic Freedom Square, where former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin went to school, is a Marriott Courtyard. And the presidential palace under construction is often called the “white house.”

“The dream of Georgia is to be like the U.S.,” says Georgia’s chancellor, or minister of administration, Kakha Bendukidze. “The relationship is based on more than geopolitical considerations. It’s based on values that we share.”

When President Bush visited in 2005, more than 150,000 Georgians packed Freedom Square to see him.

What’s this?!?! A country that appreciates George W. Bush for what he’s done?!?!! A country that WANTS to be like America??

NC Cop…great link. That’s a sentiment you find in much of eastern Europe. No one appreciates freedom or the cost to achieve it like a people who have been rescued from a totalitarian regime. It’s why the most pro-American part of Europe is now the old captive nation bloc – Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, etc.

My fear is that too many Americans don’t have the spine, or the appreciation of what this country stands for, to help the Georgians achieve their goal. Contrast the values and aspirations of the people of Georgia with, say, San Francisco.

Maybe we can make a deal with the Russians. We get to make Georgia our newest state. In return, we cede SF, Seattle, Boston, and Vermont to them. Sounds fair to me….what do you think?

Another report that further supports NC Cop’s point above is this one written by Michael Totten in today’s WSJ:

But apparently even rank-and-file Russian soldiers view the Georgians and Americans as allies. Likewise, these simple Georgian country women seem to understand who their friends and enemies are. “I am very thankful to the West,” Maya said as her eyes welled up with tears. “They support us so much. We thought we were alone. I am so thankful for the support we have from the United States and from the West.”

(snip)

My translator, whose husband works for Georgia’s ministry of foreign affairs, made a similar guess that the West helped save the capital. “The night they came close to Tbilisi,” she said, “Bush and McCain made their strongest speeches yet. The Russians seemed to back down. Bush and McCain have been very good for us.”

Let’s see….Bush and McCain get the support of a people who are in a death struggle with evil and who cherish freedom and democracy. Obama gets the endorsement of the Communist party and some of his supporters hang Che Guevara posters in the campaign HQs.

That, in a nutshell, is the basic problem the Democrats have in handling foreign affairs. They can’t tell our friends from our enemies.